One brilliant aspect of this setup is that adding functionality to OSMC and Kodi can often be accomplished via the software’s graphical interface itself, eliminating the need to wrestle with terminal commands. Kodi’s core functionality as a media center and server is extended via add-ons, both from officially recognized repositories and from the internet at large. Kodi add-ons furnish a lot of functionality and improvements via user interface upgrades, additional language uphold, scraped music and movie metadata, game clients, audio decoders, web interfaces, and lots more. Add-ons can connect Kodi to cloud platforms appreciate Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive. You can also incorporate Kodi with smart home products appreciate Home Assistant, Domoticz, Hue lights, and many others. You can even make Kodi run other media servers appreciate Plex and Jellyfin. Browse the available Kodi add-ons for a mind-blowing variety of options.
OSMC itself has a small app store through which you can extend OSMC’s native capabilities without a lot of arcane command-line tweaking. For example, there are OSMC apps to add the Transmission BitTorrent client and the Samba server to OSMC. Installing apps via OSMC’s app store will, by default, mean that OSMC handles keeping them updated, and disabling or uninstalling them as needed.
